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Miao men shave their heads with sickles and wear pistols, but why do they hang ribbons behind their backs?
In the long history of China, the regional differences of dozens of ethnic minorities have created the diversity of customs and cultures of different ethnic groups. Among many ethnic minorities, in sharp contrast to the rapid development of urbanization, it is such a mysterious nation-Miao nationality. They live in Miao stockade in the deep mountains of southeastern Guizhou, where there is a secret environment surrounded by mountains and deep forests. The rare communication with the outside world has created the farming and hunting lifestyle of Miao stockade people since ancient times and achieved self-sufficiency.

Such a closed natural environment has helped the Miao people to preserve their national culture for thousands of years and has not been assimilated by today's social development. Basha Miao Village, located in congjiang county, Qiandongnan Prefecture, still retains such a unique folk culture. Men in Basha Miao Village still have the custom of sticking muskets in their waists and shaving their heads with sickles. Basha Miao Village is the only musketeer tribe in China, which is called "the living fossil of Miao culture" and "the last musketeer tribe in China".

Although hunting has been banned now, as a pistol handed down from generation to generation by Basha Miao people, it is still worn by men around their waist to spread national culture. The man in Basha Miao Village is strong, vigorous, neat in posture and good at farm work, which is equivalent to winning a good card favored by girls in Basha Miao Village. When meeting a man who admires wholeheartedly, girls will put their ribbons on the back of the man to show their admiration. Not the back of the waist, of course, because the waist is already full of pistols and sickles. This simple and direct custom of expressing affection makes Basha Miao people simple and true.